568 cxxii. EUPHORBIACE.E (brown). [Euphorbia, 



supporting the spines and extend J-§ of the way down to the tooth below, 

 with a pair of spines and a pair of prickles to each tooth. Spines 2-0 

 lin. long, diverging, brown ; prickles J-1 lin. long, sometimes nearly or 

 quite obsolete. Involucres 3 together, sessile in the axils of the teeth, 

 1J-1| lin. indiam., shallowly cup-shaped, glabrous, bright yellow, with 

 ") glands and 5 broadly obovate fringed lobes ; glands |-1 lin. in their 

 greater diam., transversely oblong, entire, with the inner margin turned 

 up in a slight ridge or the middle of it incurved and forming a slight 

 lip. Ovary sessile, glabrous ; styles 1-1 J lin. long, shortly united at the 

 base, more or less thickened at the apex, entire or minutely bifid. — Pax 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. 82. 



Mozamb. X>lstr. Tropical South Africa, J5aiwe* .' Rhodesia: near Buluwayo^ 

 4469 ft., Et/les, 1247 ! Ratid, 396! 

 Also ill South Africa. 



126. E. torta, Pax iO K. Jloffm. in Engl Jahrh. xlv. 240. A 

 dwarf succulent, leafless and spiny, about 4 in. high, with numerous 

 stems erect from a tuberous rootstock. Stems probably about \ in. in 

 diam. when alive, much less dried, unbranched, 4-angled and more or 

 less twisted, glabrous ; angles toothed, with horny brown margins inter- 

 rupted at the base of the teeth or continuous; teeth 2J-5 lin. apart, 

 with their upper slope very short and nearly truncate and that below 

 the spines gradual. Leaves rudimentary, minute, scale-like. Spines 

 in widely diverging pairs 1 lin. long at the apex of the teeth and a 

 pair of prickles i-| lin. long immediately in front of them, directed 

 inwards on either side of the stem-angles. Flowers and fruit absent 

 from the type specimens; 



Mozamb. Distr. (icrman East Africa : Tabora, Z'ro^//<i', 167 ! 



127. E. angustiflora, Pax In Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. S'2. A dwarf 



much-l)i;uiched very spiny leafless succulent alx)ut 1 ft. high or less.' 

 Branches J-J in. in diam. (less when dried), mostly 4-angled, with the 

 opposing angles constricted so as to form opposite teeth or lobes J-§ in. 

 apart and nearly truncate at the top and sloping inwards below the 

 spines to form the constriction, sometimes with only 3 spirally twisted 

 toothed angles, glabrous. Leaves rudimentary, J lin. long and nearly 

 as broad, deltoid-ovate, acute, soon deciduous. Spines in pairs at the 

 apex of the teeth, 2-oJ lin. long, slender but very rigid, diverging, dark 

 brown, with a pair of prickles i-1 lin. long at their base or some- 

 times nearly obsolete, seated on narrow horny bright chestnut -brown 

 shields, decurrent IJ-o lin. below the spines, but never forming a 

 continuous horny margin to the angles. Flowering-eyes nearly or 

 quite touching the apex of the shields. Cymes on peduncles |-1 lin. 

 long, glabrous, very immature in the specimens seen, with o involucres, 

 the central on a distinct peduncle J-| lin. long, subglobose and f-| 

 lin. in diam., but evidently only in bud, glabrous with 5 glands and 

 r> cuneately subquadrate fringed lobes ; glands immature J lin. broad, 

 half-circular ; lateral involucres in very young bud. — E. Schinzii, Pax 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 341, not of Bull. Herb. Boiss. vi. 731). 



